Google Sites can be a terrific platform for trainees to use to maintain digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science principles trainees. The challenge for a teacher when trainees use Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

The method that I came up with to monitor updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Then every week trainees included a brand-new page to their websites. They then needed to react to the task with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to keep track of updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video shows an instructors point of view and it reveals a students perspective of this technique..

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